How often to you bail on a half-written post or response?
How often to you bail on a half-written post or response?
I have had a tendency since my earliest days on social media where I will get halfway or more through a response, and end up just cancelling it. Sometimes I feel like I’m just being to over the top with snark or otherwise don’t want to be that kind of person, but a lot of the time I’ll decide I just really don’t care enough to finish it. Sometimes I just know it’ll be an argument and I know what the person is going to say, and just have no interest in continuing the discussion. I did it on Reddit, I did it on bulletin boards, I even did it in my teens and twenties on Usenet - and I’ll probably go on doing it for as long as I continue using this medium. I probably do it a bit more than half the time. I know that lemmy benefits from more content and I have had some great discussions, but sometimes it’s just not worth it for me.
How about you? Do you hit publish or cancel more often?
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I find people online tend to have a lot more passion for arguing than I do so I often rethink posting any responses I come up with.
This is what I hate the most about the practice of using a very "scorched earth" style of rhetoric focused on shaming and berating and making things uncomfortable for opponents. There's probably a lot of people with objections but they just don't feel like dealing with that stuff so they don't say anything.